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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dracin72 who wrote (84669)	7/19/2018 12:01:01 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 361171

Look- what is "required" in the work place does not involved 63 genders. Companies make choices about manners at work- the burning assholes get on social media for being twat waffles, which is called sometimes subsumed under "PC", is just society make a collective judgment that someone is a piece of dog crap. Society has a right to make judgments. If you have some institutionalized issue, it's probably a specific one- show it to me. Define your terms, tell me what upsets you, and I'll tell you whether I agree. In my job, I deal with all sorts of people- I think (and I think everyone in a business, especially one subsidized by the state) has a duty to be fair and service oriented with everyone- even if you might really dislike them personally, you owe them service with a smile- that's your job, it's not your hobby. For people who don't get that, I say light the fire of "PC" under them if necessary. I've taught kids whose families did not believe in the holocaust, who thought people of different skin colors were inferior, who thought women were inferior... It's my job not to take out my personal feelings on kids or parents who have a different ideology- but some of those kids took out THEIR personal beliefs (like that you should call black kids the N word) on other students who by law had to be at school- in those instances, manners, PC, whatever, is a good backstop.

To: Dracin72 who wrote (84669)	7/19/2018 12:01:46 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 361171

I think things kind of got to that point for many people when there was a movement on college campuses to make sure you didn't hurt anyone's feelings, like asking where they came from, especially if they were not white. That one was interesting to me, because I certainly can see how for some people, they see that question as racist if they are in fact multi-generation American, but just not white. On the other hand, since I've lived in other countries, I find such experiences of interest so asking if someone has come from another country has nothing to do with racism, but only something of shared interest. I'd ask the same question when I hear different accents in speech, not just different ethnic appearances. When I first came back to the USA in high school years, I had an accent, and people would constantly ask about it. At that age, you try to lose it ASAP, but now I listen for such things in others. Its a positive, not a negative to detect such things. But given Trump and his jackass base, I can see why many people now would not want to be called out on seeming foreign...